It is stunning to contemplate the transformative impact that the grass-roots-driven organization Our Valley Our Future has made in the greater Wenatchee Valley during its brief 10-year life. The tiny organization and its board...
The Community Foundation of North Central Washington, which has earned a sterling reputation for fostering philanthropy and supporting area nonprofits, refuses to stand pat and instead is aiming to make an even bigger community...
I love programs that connect kids with the arts. On Thursday and Friday mornings this week, the Wenatchee Valley Symphony in partnership with Confluence Health and the Wenatchee Valley Medical Group will bring the...
There is a tendency to think about community leadership as exclusively the domain of influential business leaders, nonprofit executives and elected officials. Good civic leadership at those levels is very important, but it isn’t...
Our Valley Our Future set to roll out second five-year community-driven plan: How empowering to bring ordinary folks into envisioning the futureOur Valley Our Future will release its second five-year action plan during a...
I had the opportunity to moderate a discussion with several civic leaders about how the pandemic has impacted our valley, how organizations have adapted and opportunities that they see emerging for our valley. This...
If there is one virtue we Americans would use some work on, it’s empathy — a willingness to look at situations from other perspectives. And this is something that applies across the political spectrum. ...
If we are going to develop adequate supplies of affordable housing, launching new and expanding existing community land trusts would seem to be a wise course. It is a certainty that the wave of...
Singer, songwriter and author Dar Williams spent five days last week interacting with groups of students and diverse groups of civic in Chelan, Leavenworth and Wenatchee. The theme for the week was fostering community...
A rather remarkable series of community conversations will be held in the Wenatchee Valley, Leavenworth and Chelan next week hosted by acclaimed singer and songwriter Dar Williams, who wrote the powerful book “What I...